Yesterday’s banning of the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.

Philippe Sands QC and others submit damning legal opinion commissioned by Amnesty and Saferworld

New factsheet on human rights situation half a decade since Tunisian fruit-seller’s death led to mass protests

“When they put a chain over your hands and legs, you feel like a slave, like you are not a human being,” Syrian refugee

Amnesty International has called for an urgent change in abortion law in Northern Ireland after a judgment by Belfast’s High Court today declared existing law in breach of the European Conven

‘Insulting’ the Amir of Kuwait is punishable with a five-year jail sentence

‘There is no doubt that there has been a substantial loss of life at the hands of the military’ - M.K. Ibrahim

‘This case highlights the entrenched levels of state homophobia in the country’ - Said Boumedouha

New data shows that almost 25,000 women from across Ireland, north and south, travelled to have abortions in England and Wales – an average of close to 100 terminations every week over the pa